01/01/2023
"The U.S. Social Forum, perhaps the most important movement-building process for global Marxists, was founded in Atlanta in 2007 as a U.S. beachhead of the World Social Forum. At its 2006 meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, the WSF called for American communists to step up. “We count on you, companeros, we count on you,” Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez told the Americans among the adoring WSF crowd.
As researcher Ariel Sheen, who has done brilliant spade work in these networks, puts it : “American media, public intellectuals, and government officials have failed to present an accurate assessment of the threat that revolutionary leftist organizations that have declared their allegiance to foreign governments pose to the U.S. Constitution.”
America enters 2023 as a radically different society because of the 2020 violence linked to Black Lives Matter. It took years to knit the revolutionary network that would provoke this sea change. And, indeed, the organizers of the protests met for years to plan how to “disrupt and transform”…
